Chapter 245: Chapter 243: God Blood Absorption
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The tattered Black Lotus robe on Yuan Ge’s body completely exploded, turning into a shower of torn fabric.
His broken bones healed instantly, and his muscles bulged madly like the gnarled roots of an old tree. A layer of hard, bluish-black keratin scales grew over his skin.
Most horrifying of all, the ten fingers of his hands forcibly fused together. Flesh peeled away, transforming them into two three-foot-long, bone-white scythes that glinted with a cold light!
Aside from his head, which still retained its human features, his entire body had, under the catalysis of that bizarre divine blood, completely mutated into a terrifying monster!
Feeling the power within him—not only had his injuries healed, but his strength was now comparable to the Flesh Refining Realm Perfection—Yuan Ge’s lips curled into a cruel smile.
"Boy, I’ve taken the divine blood now. My body is that of a supreme divine descendant! Just you wait—I’m going to cut you to pieces, bit by bit!"
"Hehehehe... After killing a top-tier genius like you and offering you as a sacrifice to the Mother of Non-Birth, the divine grace she bestows will be more than enough to compensate for the side effects of this divine transformation!"
Su Yu’s expression was cold. He casually shook his slightly sore wrist, sizing up the Black Lotus Sect fiend before him, who was now neither human nor ghost.
’Was that so-called divine blood what was in the porcelain vial that Black Lotus Sect fiend just drank?’
’It can heal injuries in such a short time, and the fluctuations of his Qi and Blood have clearly skyrocketed after the transformation. He actually broke through the bottleneck of the Late-stage of the Flesh Refining Realm and reached the threshold of Flesh Refining Realm Perfection.’
However, seeing this so-called divine descendant state again, Su Yu found it increasingly familiar.
’Isn’t this just a shoddy, watered-down version of my own White Ape Transformation?’
’Not to mention that his mind was clearly affected by that malevolent power, making him frenzied and talkative.’
’Just by looking at his deformed, ugly, Demon Beast-like physical changes and the side effects he mentioned, it was obvious that this divine blood-induced transformation had extremely fatal flaws.’
"Boy, kneel and beg for mercy! Let me rip your heart out nice and easy, and I’ll be merciful and leave you a whole corpse. Otherwise, hehehehe..."
Steward Yuan threw his head back and cackled. His transformation seemed to have amplified some cruel instinct. He rubbed his pair of bone-white scythes together in front of him, producing a grating KRAK KRAK sound.
"Noisy."
Su Yu didn’t waste any more words on him.
With a thought, he retrieved the Nine Yang Blood Orchid from his storage ring and swallowed it in a few gulps.
At the same time, he silently recited a command in his mind.
’White Ape Transformation!’
The next moment, an ancient, tyrannical, and violent power erupted from every corner of Su Yu’s body!
CRACK CRACK CRACK—
A dense, grating sound of bones lengthening filled the air. Su Yu’s frame shot up by nearly a foot, and his once streamlined muscles instantly tensed like steel cables, exuding a sense of savage, absolute power.
The skin on his body rapidly turned a deep, dark gold, like a golden body forged by an ancient godfiend, with faint, profound, and archaic dark patterns emerging on its surface. His black hair grew wildly, cascading down to his waist like a savage black waterfall.
His boiling Flesh Refining Realm Qi and Blood surged like magma. The terrifying heat scorched the surrounding cold air, instantly causing a vast cloud of white, scalding steam to rise over the threshing ground.
His transformation complete, Su Yu slowly clenched his fists, feeling the explosive power within him.
Before transforming, his combat power had already surpassed a top-tier warrior at the Late-stage of the Flesh Refining Realm. Now, with the White Ape Transformation active, his attributes—strength, speed, defense, and more—had all brutally doubled!
At this moment, within the Flesh Refining Realm, he was practically invincible.
After all, there could be a huge gap between two warriors who were both at Flesh Refining Realm Perfection.
Moreover, Su Yu felt that his current strength was already touching the edge of the Muscle Forging Realm!
The Muscle Forging Realm was a period of explosive power growth, separated from the Flesh Refining Realm by a massive chasm. The fact that Su Yu could touch this threshold now would have shocked countless people if word got out.
But before Su Yu could make a move, the man opposite him had a drastic change in attitude.
"Impossible!!! You... How can you also transform into a divine descendant?!"
Through the rising steam, Yuan Ge stared intently at the transformed Su Yu.
His face no longer held its earlier arrogance and mockery. He looked as if he had seen a ghost in broad daylight, his bulging eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.
Su Yu had no intention of wasting time explaining anything to him.
BOOM!
The ground beneath his feet exploded, leaving a large crater. His body instantly turned into a dark-gold, bloody shadow, appearing before his opponent.
"Mountain-Toppling Annihilation!"
There was no probing. He immediately unleashed the most tyrannical strike from the Demon Ape Shakes the Mountain Fist.
His violent Qi and Blood roared like a bursting river, and a dense, blood-colored demonic ape aura enveloped his right fist.
This punch was like an ancient demon ape reborn, smashing down upon its enemy.
The power of this punch was too tyrannical. The air in front of his fist was blasted apart, creating a visible white shockwave that rolled like a sea of clouds, pressing down on Yuan Ge with a suffocating shadow of death.
ROAR!
Feeling the mortal danger, Yuan Ge’s combat instincts were fully triggered.
He let out a furious roar, crossed the two three-foot-long bone-white scythes in front of his chest, and recklessly slashed at Su Yu’s incoming fist.
As his arms swung, the bone scythes left a trail of ghastly, bloody afterimages, his own Flesh Refining Realm Perfection Qi and Blood roaring wildly.
BANG!
The fist and scythes collided, and a massive explosion thundered over the threshing ground.
The two violent gales instantly turned into a turbulent vortex of Qi Flow that scattered in all directions, launching the piles of dry straw on the threshing ground into the sky as if a tornado had sprung from nowhere.
However, this seemingly even collision lasted for less than half a breath.
CRACK!
Along with a crisp snapping sound, Yuan Ge’s mutated bone scythes, which were harder than refined steel, broke in half like brittle deadwood under the crushing, unreasonable force of Su Yu’s absolute Ming Jin!
Yuan Ge, however, seemed to feel no pain. He didn’t scream. With a delayed reaction, he merely tried to continue resisting.
The next instant, the peerlessly tyrannical Fist Force shot straight through the broken bone scythes, destroyed the defense of his arms, and slammed viciously into his chest.
PUFF!
Yuan Ge’s massive body was sent flying as if hit by a runaway train. His feet plowed two deep furrows in the ground as he was knocked back dozens of yards.
"Damn it! What kind of monster are you?!"
His eyes bulged as he stared at the godfiend-like figure opposite him.
At that moment, a suspicion suddenly flooded his mind: Su Yu was the true, perfect divine descendant who had received the Mother’s baptism, while the monstrous form he had taken after swallowing the divine blood was nothing but an imposter!
His earlier confidence was gone. Only a single thought remained in Yuan Ge’s mind.
Run!
He endured the excruciating pain of his broken arms, spun around, and pushed his Black Lotus footwork to its limit, fleeing madly toward the wilderness outside the village like a stray dog.
"You’re not getting away!"
A bone-chilling whisper, like the words of a reaper, suddenly echoed in his ear.
How terrifying was the Seven Fiends Thunder Collapse Step at the Perfection Realm when powered by the White Ape Transformation?
Su Yu’s figure became a dark-gold phantom of lightning, crossing dozens of yards in an instant and sticking to Yuan Ge’s back like a shadow.
"Wind-Tearing Armor-Splitting!"
Su Yu splayed his fingers, his hand like the claw of an enraged giant ape. His five fingers, like cast steel, precisely latched onto Yuan Ge’s thick shoulder from behind.
His massive tendons coiled like flood dragons, and a terrifying, monstrous strength capable of uprooting mountains and lifting cauldrons erupted!
"Get back here!"
Su Yu roared. Veins bulged on his right arm as he single-handedly and brutally yanked the ten-foot-tall, thousand-plus-pound Yuan Ge into the air as if swinging a tattered sack!
Suspended in mid-air, Yuan Ge’s face was filled with horror. He desperately twisted his massive body, trying to break free, but Su Yu’s large, dark-gold hand was like an unbreakable iron clamp, holding him fast and rendering him immobile.
Su Yu centered his stance, and like wielding a massive hammer, he smashed his enemy’s enormous body down onto the hard ground of the threshing field!
BOOM!
The earth trembled violently!
The once flat, packed threshing ground was brutally smashed into a large crater by this terrifying blow, sending up a massive cloud of dust that filled the air.
Su Yu exhaled a scorching white stream of air that howled like a gale, instantly blowing away the dust cloud.
He then launched his most ferocious combination of attacks at Yuan Ge on the ground.
"Demon Ape Beats the Drum!"
Su Yu transformed into a true blood-colored Asura. Empowered by the Ape Shadow Swift Wind, he threw dozens, even hundreds, of brutal phantom punches in a single instant, all too fast for the naked eye to see!
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM...
A series of terrifying rumbles, like an ancient god wildly beating a celestial drum, echoed ceaselessly across the empty threshing ground. Each boom was accompanied by Yuan Ge’s bloodcurdling shrieks and the sound of flesh and bone being pulverized.
Several breaths later.
The shower of phantom fists finally dissipated, and the deafening roars ceased.
On the ground, only a shocking, massive crater several feet deep remained.
Yuan Ge’s enormous body lay at the bottom of the crater like a pile of mud. The hard, bluish-black scales on his body had been completely smashed, his bones and tendons were nearly all broken, and several terrifying, bloody holes pierced straight through his chest and abdomen, revealing fragments of his internal organs.
But even after suffering such a devastating blow, he did not die immediately, and there was no pain in his eyes.
The dark red, shredded flesh at the edges of the massive holes was still twitching and writhing bizarrely, dripping with scalding, boiling blood.
Yuan Ge lay in a pool of his own blood, his turbid, bulging eyes turning feebly.
He stared intently at the edge of the crater, at the handsome young man who had already returned to his normal form, bare-chested, his face as calm as still water.
’Impossible... Absolutely impossible...’
’Why can he also transform into a "divine descendant"?’
’And why is his dark-gold, fiendgod body so much more perfect—several times more terrifying—than the divine blood bestowed by the Mother?’
In this final moment of his life, Yuan Ge felt no fear. Instead, he was completely consumed by endless unwillingness, doubt, and confusion.
’Could it be... that he’s the real one...’
As if he had pieced together some kind of truth, an expression of ultimate terror suddenly appeared on Yuan Ge’s ruined face. He stared at Su Yu, his lips moving slightly.
Su Yu frowned. Ignoring whatever he was trying to say, he simply walked slowly to his side, preparing to finish him off for good.
However, before Su Yu could act, the situation suddenly changed!
The dying Yuan Ge’s body was suddenly wracked by extremely violent convulsions, like a puppet being yanked about wantonly.
A single drop of blood, emitting an eerie red glow, seeped out without warning from the largest hole near his heart.
This drop of blood seemed to possess a life of its own. It floated in mid-air like a greedy vortex and began to violently absorb and devour all the remaining Qi and Blood and life force within Yuan Ge’s body!
In less than a breath’s time, Yuan Ge’s massive, mountain-of-flesh body was completely drained by that eerie drop of blood, like a whale inhaling water.
His flesh and bones instantly weathered and withered. A spring breeze blew past, and the terrifying corpse turned to a puff of flying ash, like the remains of something burnt to cinders, and completely dissipated on the spot, not even leaving a trace behind.
Su Yu’s expression grew solemn. He took half a step back, his eyes fixed on the eerie drop of blood that now floated quietly in mid-air, emitting a heart-pounding fluctuation.
’So this is the so-called "divine blood" that can mutate people into monsters?’
’It’s astonishing. It actually seems to be alive.’
The next moment, something even more astonishing happened.
In his field of vision, the familiar, faint ink-wash text suddenly appeared:
[Divine Blood discovered. Absorb?]
